Must read books about science?

Doesn't have to be about physics - in fact, the more diversity, the better - I'm just looking for a bunch of books that are must reads (I'm going somewhere for a while and need books to keep my company )

Now I don't want textbooks, I want something that is easily accessible without too much deep thought, without equations or something that requires a PhD in the field to understand. For example, I'm reading A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson and have found it to be a great read about science (not necessarily how to DO science, but that's what university is for ). I do intend to look into the Elegant Universe, as I've heard so much about it.

It's almost certainly impossible to fit every detail in the book on a 3 hour TV show so to judge the book according to what little you've seen is a bit presumptuous.

Aye, but it seems that if they had a lot of material that they could cover, they wouldn't have spent all three hours repeating what they covered in the first fifteen minutes
:zzz: But I suppose perhaps it was not geared for a very scientific audience.